Radio Broadcasts
Plans are in the works to make podcasts available for current as well as past episodes of Deep Focus. In the mean time, please tune in Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm EDT at 89.9FM in New York or wkcr.org.
These are descriptions of past radio broadcasts that have not yet been posted as available podcasts.
2013.05.06 Brian Charette on Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes
Rebroadcast February 15, 2021.
Starting at midnight tonight, a 24-hour memorial to Chick Corea on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org (all day Monday [...]
2015.08.31 Bill Ware on Horace Silver
Rebroadcast February 8, 2021.
Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in this rebroadcast from 2015. [...]
2013.07.01 Leon Gruenbaum on Hermeto Pascoal
Rebroadcast January 18, 2021.
Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in [...]
2011.08.01 Brian Charette on Weather Report with Jaco Pastorius
Rebroadcast Dec. 21, 2020.
#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #WeatherReport #EthelSmith #Jaco #JacoPastorius #Jazz #JazzInterview [...]
2011.09.12 Vernon Reid on Weather Report
Rebroadcast on December 14, 2020.
From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because [...]
2013.01.14 Billy Cobham on Tony Williams
Rebroadcast December 7, 2020.
Many people think it was Miles Davis who first fused Rock and Jazz. Sorry, folks: Tony Williams got there sooner (and [...]
2011.09.26 Eric Person on McCoy Tyner
Rebroadcast November 30, 2020.
McCoy Tyner was one of the many greats who we lost in this year of Covid-19 but the light his music shines on the music [...]
2019.02.04 Eric Person on Jimmy Lyons
Rebroadcast November 23, 2020.
Say the name "Jimmy Lyons" to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that [...]
2018.02.19 Eric Person on Geri Allen
Rebroadcast November 16, 2020.
Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as [...]
2013.08.12 Eric Person on Sonny Rollins
Rebroadcast November 9, 2020.
How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh [...]